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[jay-ell]

Partway through that, I thought you were about to say that you were going to sew yourself a new cutting board.

If there were a way to knit myself one, I'd have done it already.

I also had been using repurposed margarine container lids as coasters because I was too cheap to buy them, and I keep saying I'm going to make some hand-knit and felted coasters to match my living room. Then I found some cute chipboard ones on clearance for $0.25 for a pack of 6, so I went ahead and got them because I've moved houses twice and bought a new couch since I started planning to make my own.

[pmcd9]

That was can worthy.

[jay-ell]

...frugal it up at the grocery store. It is a tight month, money-wise, since Pedro had to have some work done on his car, so with only $50 to last us 'til Monday, I armed myself with my iPhone, a stack of coupons, and the sales flyer and made a meal plan for the next five days based on what I have left in my fridge, freezer, and pantry.

Original total: $75. After sales, discounts, and coupons: $41.15. Hooray, me! Let's just hope neither of us has to put gas in the car.

[CortJstr]

I was at Harris Teeter on Saturday. If you don't know they started have secret deals for people on their e-mail list and some of them are crazy cheap and one-day-only (like 2-liter sodas for 88-cents). Saturday their system (at least at my store) was messed up leading to some very angry coupon ladies. I, on the other hand, had a $3.99 bag of Snickers ring up at -$.072 because some Country Crock discount was being lumped in for reasons they couldn't figure out. The store kept me there for like 5 minutes trying to fix it then just said "pay what's on the screen and go." So I ended up with 2 bags of Snickers for $1.10

[Arachno-capitalist]

If there were a way to knit myself one, I'd have done it already.

I also had been using repurposed margarine container lids as coasters because I was too cheap to buy them, and I keep saying I'm going to make some hand-knit and felted coasters to match my living room. Then I found some cute chipboard ones on clearance for $0.25 for a pack of 6, so I went ahead and got them because I've moved houses twice and bought a new couch since I started planning to make my own.

Friend, we are not all buying cars and sushi every night. Coasters are a thing you are allowed to spend money on and not feel bad about. They last forever.

[jay-ell]

I was at Harris Teeter on Saturday. If you don't know they started have secret deals for people on their e-mail list and some of them are crazy cheap and one-day-only (like 2-liter sodas for 88-cents). Saturday their system (at least at my store) was messed up leading to some very angry coupon ladies. I, on the other hand, had a $3.99 bag of Snickers ring up at -$.072 because some Country Crock discount was being lumped in for reasons they couldn't figure out. The store kept me there for like 5 minutes trying to fix it then just said "pay what's on the screen and go." So I ended up with 2 bags of Snickers for $1.10

Yes, I am on their e-mail list. There is an iPhone app, it is rad.

Friend, we are not all buying cars and sushi every night. Coasters are a thing you are allowed to spend money on and not feel bad about. They last forever.

I did buy them! They have a picture of a '50's looking lady laughing, and the phrase, "Make yourself at home -- clean my kitchen."

How droll.

[KeithHernandez]

... get a snow day.  Whoo Whoooooo.

[littlefallsmets]

People... use coasters?

Like people not in movies about rich people?

Huh.

[greenkoolayd]

People... use coasters?

Like people not in movies about rich people?

Huh.

in your world, only the wealthy care to prolong the quality of their wooden tabletops?

[jay-ell]

I have a lot of hand-me-down furniture that I'd prefer not to refinish just yet. I don't use them in the dining room, or anything, but at the bedside and living room? Yes.

[pmcd9]

Who knew that coasters are an elitist thing?

[greenkoolayd]

Who knew that coasters are an elitist thing?

i cant tell if he was being sargasmic or not.

[theinevitable]

do you go to bars? Often they give you a coaster with your beer.

I do not use coasters, but I do not really have wooden furniture that isn't from Goodwill.

My girlfriend and her roommate have an ongoing joke that they will have a party at their apartment and make everyone use coasters.
To them this is funny, and I'm not sure why.
To other people it is not funny, because "yeah, that sounds like something they would do. Those girls kind of need to relax."

[jaydub]

My extremely middle middle class mother in law is a coaster fanatic.  She doesn't say anything, but if your drink has no coaster she will put one under it.

[littlefallsmets]

I was making fun of my own messy informality, yes.

I understand that coasters are A Thing with most people but, yeah, it is incredibly foreign to my life experience.

There was never a coaster in my family's house as I was growing up and has never been one in a place where I have been a permanent resident.